From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 28 11:43:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDFD14EBB for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:43:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from eccles.salk.edu (eccles [198.202.70.120]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA06346; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:43:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: Dermot McNally Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Wathey Subject: Re: Status of XFree86 on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990928183931.00ac7270@tim> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the feedback! Tom On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Dermot McNally wrote: > Just to add my experience to the picture: > > At 10:41 27/09/99 -0700, Tom Bartol wrote: > > > >1) We could "make" XFree86 but a "make install" failed due to a missing > >/usr/include/sys/pci_ioctl.h. We noticed that patch-4 for for > >/usr/port/x11/XFree86 includes a patch to "#include " > >however this file does not exist in /usr/include/sys on our system. > >"make world" in /usr/src does not install this file. We found the file in > >/usr/src/sys/pci and copied it by hand to /usr/include/sys. After this a > >"make install" for XFree86 succeeded. FreeBSD for Intel does not have > >this file in /usr/include/sys and XFree86 does not require it on Intel. > > Yup, same here, and the same solution. > > > >3) We configured X to run the X_SVGA server for our Matrox Millenium II. > >The server starts up fine but some windows are filled with black and > >menus pop up empty until you run the mouse cursor over the locations where > >the text should be. > > Exactly the same symptoms here. It's a 2 Meg Matrox Millenium, and the box, > FWIW, is a DEC Personal Workstation 433. > > Cheers, > Dermot > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message